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Show Page 3A South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, November 7, 1984 Letters to the Editor Military Wives tff $$?, o mVf &!'' ''AO, t, the productions presented by the center pay the admission which is requested. Have Rights Our citizens are helping to Review Editor: We did it at last. If you were married 20 years and spent years while your spent time (20 years) on active military duty, you have medical rights and base privileges coming your way. Remember if you remarried you lost these rights, starting Jan. 1, 1985. Why not all get together and all get our I.D. cards together. Pearl L. Tirado Clearfield 15 keep that group going by participating. Also, where possible, I do not feel that governments should be expected to finance the arts. years the Kaysville-Fru- it Heights Cultural and Performing Arts Council has been presenting various productions in the Kaysville area. Among those productions the annual outdoor pageant presented at the Happy Hollow Golf Course. For 10 Not once has our city donated money to these productions. We are able to do these productions through donated labor. In fact, last year we received a bill, and had to pay for the electricity the city furnished us. The only supReview Editor: our city gives us is the police Today I read an article in the port durLakeside Review which stated protection and traffic control the ing production. that Mrs. Coleman from the We welcome people from all of Bountiful Art Center approached the Kaysville City Council to ask the communities to attend our for money to support that center productions because they pay the because so many of our residents admission price, which makes it possible for us to continue. attended their activities. I feel that our city should not Dont get me wrong. I am not subsidize this center because I am expecting the city council to give sure that those of us who attend us money to help in our produc City Shouldnt Subsidize Arts Photo by Matthew E. Brown . HIGH WINDS and twilight shadows create nouncers and cameramen at ViewmontBox of autumn around silhouettes of an- - der High football game. Editorial Davis Needs Image Change Davis Countys image is causing a problem. The area has long been considered, both by those who live in the county and those who do not, to be a bedroom People who community. move to Davis County often do so because they want the quiet atmosphere and scenic surroundings. The cities within the county have never been primary sites of industrial development. For many years, thats the way residents and officials wanted it. But, attitudes within the county are changing. Homeowners are finding costs of living in quiet, scenic surrounds are high. County officials see the need for a broader tax base in order to continue to provide services to a population. Davis planning commission members are trying to make attitude changes in two directions. They are trying to influfast-growi- ng ence economic state development personnel to help bring industry and busi- ness to Davis County while, at the same time, attempting to influence city officials to include industrial sites in their city master plans. Davis County needs to grow industrially in proportion to its burgeoning population, which is expected to increase by more than 100,000 people in the next 25 years. Attitudes need to change among both city officials and the general population in order to change the countys image. Light industry should be targeted for the county in order to preserve its quiet atmosphere. Light manufacturing, distribution and businesses like computer parts assembly or similar activities would be proper for the area and would not detract from the tions. I feel the way we are doing it is fine and I think that those of you who feel the same way I do should contact your city council-me- n and advise them you do not want your tax money going to support the Bountiful Art Center. Your City Councilmen are Paul Wagaman, Beck Sheffield, Carol Page, Clair Snow and Bret Howard. Your Mayor is Gerald Purdy. Margaret Brough Kaysville Have Respect For U.S. Flag Review Editor: I am outraged at the lack of respect for the American Flag. The Layton Hills Mall Flag is so beautiful on a nice day with our beautiful mountains in the background. It outrages me to see it still up in a rain or snow storm. This is very common sight. Is there no employee at the mall willing to take the time and effort and take it down. Please, give our American Flag back the respect and care it deserves. Kaylene Furse Layton Lakeside Review Letter Policy Outlined The Lakeside Review encour- the writer. Shorter letters are ages readers to submit letters to more likely to be published. Long the editor. Content of letters letters will be subject to editing at should address issues of interest the discretion of Lakeside Review to our readership throughout Da- editorial staff. vis County and in Roy. Letters will also be edited, if Letters should be typed, necessary, to meet journalistic and must include the standards of good taste. Libelous name and telephone number of material will be deleted. With few double-s- paced, exceptions, letters must be ac- companied by the writers name when published. Send all letters to the Lakeside Review, 2146 N. Main, Suite 526, Layton, Ut., 84041, or to the Lakeside Review, 145 N. Main, Bountiful. Hours at the two offices are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Viewpoint Action Needed by U.S. Citizens To Control, Cut National Debt ERNEST EBERHARD Review JR. Guest Columnist Almost everyone feels our enormous national debt and budget deficit are our biggest concern as a nation. For a while our political candidates talked about it, but gave no workable plan for its elimination. It was soon forgotten in a barrage of charges and countercharges on personal and minor issues. Most people feel we are better off now but there is a very distinct uneasiness that our better off? may be temporary. In the back ground skulk worries about a national interest debt service which will soon reach 200 billion dollars yearly. High interest is a problem. Suppose that rate falls, as it must if we are to present a rebuilding of inflation. If that happens, foreign money, which is now so much a part of our national finance picture will be pulled back to the countries of its origin. Our ability to finance our national deficit and needed expansion of our industrial capability will be gone. Some other questions must be asked. Are we going to continue to rob from future generations to pay for an artificial standard of living now? Have we forgotten the lessons of economic history? We have been warned often and correctly by those who helped create this nation, on the proper role of government and the danger of deficit financing. Woodrow Wilson pointed out: "The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of government power not the increase of it. Thomas Jefferson, one of the fathers of our nation, warned: I place economy among the first and most important, virtues; and public debt as the greatest danger to be feared. To preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load' us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty or , profusion and servitude." Lenin is quoted as saying, the way to bring a nation to its knees is to debauch its currency. There is now doubt whether our built-i- n perpetual debt can be corrected by ever shorter swings to prosperity. Unless the deficit is very substantially reduced it will take about 50 percent of all Americans personal income payments in 1989 to pay the federal governments interest bill alone. A nervous stock market, high interest rates, a persistent multibillion dollar trade deficit, a hesitant and inadequate improvement of our industrial capability, all say one thing: disaster stares the U.S. in the face unless federal deficits and private debt are kept under control. We could go on endlessly pointing out the dangers our debt presents to our present generation and much more to future generations. We are now at the point where we need some specific, Constitutional restraints on using the power to tax as a tool to be elected to political office. Several truths need to be put in the forefront and used to build in fiscal controls for our national government. One is that fiat (phony) money is the royal road to riches, power and prestiage for politicians. Witness the holding up of desperately needed highway funds until Tip O Neil can get 300 million dollars to build a tunnel in Boston. Deficit spending cannot be carved out without fiat money and legislation. These must be made unavailable to politicians. We, as a nation, must do more and more to take care of our social problems locally and Outside federal programs. An excellent example of how this is being done is reported in the Oct. 1984 The Readers Digest, pp. state of California has actually gone from a deficit of $1.5 billion to a surplus of $205 million. In our own state we have a surplus approaching $90 million. Especially noteworthy is the welfare reform project being carved out in San Diego County. It is probably the most successful, from any standpoint, in our nation. This pork-barr- el 173-18- 0. report should be must reading for all citizens interested in getting our country back on a solid financial footing. d article such In a as this there is probably no better way to put the problem into perspective than to consider some of the Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom advocated by the American Economic Foundation. Here are three of them: 1. Nothing in our material world can come from nowhere or go nowhere, nor can it be free, everything in our economic life has a source, a destination and a cost that must be paid. 2. The government is never a source of goods. Everything produced is produced by people and everything that government gives to people, it must take from people. (with a 50 percent charge for taking it). 3. When government decides to spend more than it has received, that extra, unearned money is created out of thin air, through the banks, and, when spent, takes value only by reducing value of all money, savings and insurance. (This loss of purchasing power is the crudest tax of all taxes). There are so many facets to the problem of federal deficits that they cannot be brought under effective and continued control on a voluntary basis. A balanced budget, Constitutionally mandated, is the onjy way politicians will be stopped from buying notes and paying for them with .fiat space-limite- This is Wally Behnke, Frank Cole, Linda Thoren and Ken Smith. Theyre United Way volunteers. Just four of the many volunteers who help run the United Way in different communities across the country. Volunteers who help raise funds. And, in turn, make the tough decisions of how the money can be put to the best use in their own community. Volunteers like these are just part of the reason the United Way is so effective at meeting local human needs. So thats who really runs the United Way. Your friends. Your neighbors. People just like you. And thats the way it should be. money. We, the people, must place that Constitutional control in effect. It cannot be a piece meal, halfhearted effort. It is an eitheror situation and the time is short. We may not have another chance. United Wfay Thanks to you. it works, for ALL OF US. A Public Service of This Publication Classified Can Rent It. V A This is for all those who ever wonder who runs the United Way. k I h k |